Canada earthquake: 7.0 earthquake hits Canada just MINUTES after 6.7 massive tremor

And a third, strong quake hit the same area less than one hour after the first one struck off. 

The first earthquake struck off at 6.39am BST, while the second one rocketed the same location less than half an hour later, at 7.16am BST. 

The tremors hit the Canadian province of British Columbia, which lays on the notorious Ring of Fire. 

The first one struck at a depth of 21 miles (33 km) about 117 miles (190 km) southwest of Port Hardy, a town on the northeast end of Vancouver island, while the second struck 135 miles (218 km) southwest of Port Hardy.  

The latest, a 6.5 magnitude quake, hit 138 miles (223 km) southwest of Port Hardy at 7.22am BST. 

There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the quakes.  

There was no immediate tsunami warning.  

The Ring of Fire lies in a horseshoe shape in the Pacific Ocean, stretching from New Zealand to Chile and including the Asian and American coasts. 

There are 452 volcanoes in the 25,000-mile area.

This makes it constantly active, with tremors striking regions laying on the Ring every day.

Professor Bill McGuire, Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at University College London explained to eExpress.co.uk what the deadly area is: “The Ring of Fire is a girdle of volcanoes and earthquake zones that circles the Pacific Ocean, and which marks the join between some of the planet’s most active tectonic plates.

“Almost all the of the world’s most explosive and dangerous volcanoes are located here, along with the some of the longest and most deadly earthquake faults.

“Many of the biggest faults in the Ring of Fire are submarine so that their rupture can trigger catastrophic tsunamis, such as those that struck Indonesia and the Indian Ocean in 2004 and Japan in 2011.”

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